Bunnylovr

Official Selection, 2025 Sundance Film Festival

A cam girl is gifted a bunny from a client. Meanwhile, a reconciliation with a dying father complicates everything, but it’s not the usual daddy issues. When a lifeless day job, hookups with an ex, and best friend chemistry start to sour, she falls into a rabbit hole of fantasy, reality, subversions of power, and unstable New York City relationships.

Drawing from her own experiences, director Katarina Zhu plays the protagonist Becca, a rootless Chinese American New Yorker moonlighting as a cam girl longing for some sort of connection. BUNNYLOVR unfolds in the softness of a rekindling father-daughter relationship, an unexpected lie, an increasingly unsafe entanglement, a sun-soaked baptism illuminated by Daisy Zhou’s cinematography. A complicated female friendship with Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby) is refreshingly explored, and Austin Amelio as Becca’s obsessive client slowly creeps under the skin.

Zhu takes us through the false intimacy of online sex work and pastel expectations of girlhood in a feature film debut that puts her squarely on the American indie map.

– Michelle Sui

Preceded By

And Here We Are

Directed by Christian Yamane

Four friends capture their search for meaning and connection through a VHS camera.